Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] how to start Wireshark automatically at each boot-up?

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:18:48 -0500

If your looking to monitor startup traffic from the box I would think it would be better to setup Wireshark on another system and attach that box to a hub / tap / span port / ect. That way you can get everything that happens on boot.  If you don’t know when the system will reboot you can also set up a ring buffer for the capture so it will always be running with out killing your disk space.

Just a thought

tim

 

From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hrishikesh Murali
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:58 AM
To: Community support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] how to start Wireshark automatically at each boot-up?

 

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Dai Nish <dai_nish@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Please advise me how you could start Wireshark automatically and use it to monitor network traffic at each boot-up.


Just add the line "wireshark&" to /etc/rc.local
 

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